Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-13
M DICAL INH AL ALTO \
Combined with Constitutional Remedies.

A AUn II LA L Mh AL VI III bAoAhpCS
" of the respiratory passages consists in
the employ ment of Medical Inhalation for
its direct effects on the diseased organs;
and, at the same time, adopting such hy-
giepic measures and administering such
medicines by the stomach as will most ef-
fectually purify the blood, give tone to
the nervous system. and build up and
strengthen the general constitution. In
other werds. we employ combined local
and general treatmens.
What is MEDICAL Inhalation? Before
stating briefly what Medical inhalation
is, we PROPOSE in AS few words as possible,
to state clearly what 1t is not.
Medical Inhalation Is not cure-all, a
nostrum, or a panacea. 1t is not specific
remedy for any disease. 1t Is not quack
medicine, or advertised to cure any or all
the ills that flesh is heir to, AMI intended to
fill the pockets of its proprietors II is not
a talisman, whose possession iusures health
to its possessor without the Intervention Of
sense or judgment. Medical Inhalation Is
none of these things.
Medical Inhalation is simply and solely
method of taking medicines by inhaling or
breathisg them into the lungs instead of
swallowing them into the stomach. By In:
halation, the proper medicines are applied
directly to the seat OF the disease, in the
nose. throat or lungs; and 1t Is clear 70
every reasoning person how peculiarly ap.
plicable Inhalation is in the disorders OF
the Oraans named. If you have scalded or
burned the surface of the body, or wounded
any limb or member, you do not swallow
the remedy intended to heal the dfsor-
ganized tissue On the contrary, you apply
1t directly to the seat of the wound or IN
jury. Why. then. when suffering from ca
tarIh of the nasal passages or throat, or az
licted wi h liberation OF the lungs, should
you rely on medicines taken Into the
stomach?
Medical Inhalation not only applies the
proper healing remedies to the seat of the
disease, but 1t applies the remedy IN the
~, w
{ s is well known, medicines act most power.
fully. How much greater for example, Is
the effect of drachm OF chloroform, when
inhaled or breathed, than many times the
quantity when swallowed into the stomach:
The same is true of chlorine, Of iodine. and
| of many other substances: By inhalation
| the medicine is not poured into the stomach
| and thence sent wandering through the
| system in search of q malRdy which may be
mainly or entirely local one; but BY this
rectly to the diseased organ. Who, after
| studying the anotomy of the lungs. can
doubt that Inflammation and alteration Of
| the air-tubes and air-cells. the direct appli-
cation of the healing medicine by inhala
| ton to the disea sed parts, is the correct and
| rational method of treatment? Who. on
the other hand, can be SO irrational as to
believe that the proper and direct way to
reach the diseased surfaces OF the s1r-
passages in this case, is by the way of the
stomach? Physiology teaches us that The
membrane, or skin, lining the air passages
of the nose, throat and lungs, is only
slightly modified form Of the same structure
as that which covers the external surface
OF the body. Why, then, should local treat
ment be proper and necessary for inham-
nations, COMPOSITIONS and ulcerations of the
one and not be equally SO in the case OF the
other?
Our experience and success in treating
diseases OF the nose. throat and lungs, de-
monstrates, beyond all question, that the
true scientific treatment of these diseases Is
that treatment which combines the local
| stitutional effects of systematic remedies,
given in the usual way by the stomach.
One or both methods must be adopted as
the circumstances demand, and such RENE
and judgment of the physician have proved
| to be proper in each particular case.
Medical Advocates of In ton.
Physicians who were educated twenty
years ago or more, and who have not kept
up with the times in the advance in medi-
cal science, have very little idea OF the great
importance all leading writers now give to
monary diseases. To such an extent Is this
true that no patient should intrust his case
to any physician who Is not well prepared
and thoroughly equipped with everything
proper remedies by the method of tnhala-
ton.
The numerous cures effected by inhala-
lation in cases seemingly past all help. and
the uniform success attending It's use IN
diseases of the respiratory organs, renders
it obligatory on every honest physician to
at once apply himself to gain practical
knowledge of the Inhalation, or, II that is
not possible, he is at least bound to decline
to treat such cases.
Among the most eminent physicians of
the age who are fully awakened to the value
of Medical Inhalation in these diseases are
the following:
Dr.. La Roche, of the Paris Academy of
Medicine; DR.. Frederick LanghausSOf Ber-
lin; Drs. Klebs and T0mmasi-Crudeli; Sir
Archibald Dickson, of Edinburgh, Scotland
Dr.. Eichler, DR.; Cameron, Dr. Gurdon Buck
Hughlings Jackson. the venerable DR.. Rob-
ert Dickinson. Prof. Thierfelder. Spencer
Wells, DR.. Hilton Flagge, DR.. G. P. Wood,
Pfs; s. FritsSh RI & and ait'ig DR.; FSthsrsill, Dr.
Drs. Anstie. Ball, Fuller. Lancereaux,
Krauss, Huguenie, Heller, Orth, CorriR an,
Fenwick, and many others.
With scarcely single exception every
medical authority of eminence recognizes
the wonderful potency of this new method,
and the coming generation of physicians
are certain to be thoroughly educated
therein. At present 1t is only few physi.
clans here and there who have made "Dis-
eases of Respiration" life study th,t are
fitted in any way to employ the wonderful
| resources of Medical Inhalation in the cure
of these diseases.
The Durability of Consumption.
For five years the celebrated DIR. H.
Bennett waa pathologist to the val In
frmary Of Edinburgh, and In his great
work on Consumption he makes the fol.
lowing statement:
During this period made upwards of
200e post t-mortem examinations of persons
dying from various diseases, and was
constantly meeting with cases in which /
tion, which had evidently healed up or
cicatrizsd years before the death of the
subject. Nature did not seem to have been
successful in restoring the wasted Jung
substance but the ts cavities n;.n were dried up,
the subject lived for years, with diminished
lung power 1t is true, but otherwise in good
health"